Bill Text: PA HB500 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Providing for the education registration plate; establishing the Technology in Education Fund; and providing for the distribution of annual use fees received from the registration of the education registration plate.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 14-4)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-02-18 - Referred to TRANSPORTATION [HB500 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB500-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 552
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 500 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY MOUL, BEAR, BOYD, BROOKS, BROWN, CREIGHTON, DeLUCA, FAIRCHILD, FLECK, GEIST, KORTZ, MILLER, PAYNE, PYLE, REICHLEY, SCAVELLO, SIPTROTH AND VULAKOVICH, FEBRUARY 18, 2009
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, FEBRUARY 18, 2009
AN ACT
Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, providing for the education registration plate;
establishing the Technology in Education Fund; and providing
for the distribution of annual use fees received from the
registration of the education registration plate.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Title 75 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
§ 1366. Education registration plate.
(a) Plate.--The department, in consultation with the
Department of Education, shall design and issue an education
registration plate.
(b) Issuance.--The department shall issue the registration
plate for a passenger car, motor home, trailer or truck with a
registered gross weight of not more than 9,000 pounds.
(c) Fees.--
(1) An initial one-time fee of $30, which shall be in
addition to the annual registration fee, shall be collected
by the department for each plate issued under this section.
(2) An annual fee of $10, which shall be in addition to
the annual registration fee, shall be collected by the
department for each plate issued under this section in each
subsequent year.
(d) Use of fee.--The fee paid under subsection (c) shall be
distributed as follows:
(1) Twenty dollars of the initial one-time fee shall be
deposited into the Technology in Education Fund.
(2) Ten dollars of the recurring fee shall be deposited
into the Technology in Education Fund.
Section 2. Section 1905 of Title 75 is amended by adding a
subsection to read:
§ 1905. Payments to special funds.
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(d) Technology in Education Fund.--
(1) There is established a special account in the State
Treasury which shall be known as the Technology in Education
Fund. The purpose of the Technology in Education Fund is to
pay for computer technology in the public schools.
(2) All moneys received under section 1366(d)(1)
(relating to education registration plate) and all interest
received on the moneys in the Technology in Education Fund
shall be credited to the Technology in Education Fund.
(3) Subject to approval under paragraphs (5) and (6),
all funds in the Technology in Education Fund are hereby
annually appropriated to the Department of Education and
shall be used for the purposes authorized under this
subsection in accordance to the parameters set forth under
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paragraph (4).
(4) Funds shall be allocated to public school districts
through a competitive grant review process established by the
Department of Education as follows:
(i) A district receiving funds from the Technology
in Education Fund in any given fiscal year shall be
ineligible to receive further grants from the Technology
in Education Fund for two subsequent fiscal years.
(ii) The Department of Education may establish
matching requirements for districts receiving moneys from
the Technology in Education Fund.
(iii) The application for a grant shall be made at
such time and in such form as the Secretary of Education
may require.
(5) Estimates of amounts to be expended under this
subsection shall be submitted to the Governor by the
Department of Education for his approval.
(6) The State Treasurer shall not honor any requisition
for expenditures by the Department of Education in excess of
estimates approved by the Governor under paragraph (5) or in
excess of the amount available for the purposes for which the
requisition was made, whichever is the lesser amount.
Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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